The regional coordinator of the Program for Promotion of Oral Health, Ricardo Cabral, said the agency Lusa that the project, which started in 2006, proceeded in a "positive" and that includes the nine islands of the archipelago. He explained the dentist, the newsletter is intended for children and young people up to 18 years and can be requested free of charge in 16 health centers in the region.
"The aim in future is that the entire population may have an individual medical oral health," said the expert, who represents the Azores in the National Oral Health. With the creation of this document, the Azorean executive intended to provide the Regional Health Service (SRS) of an instrument for registration and consultation for health promotion and prevention of oral diseases in the islands.
For Ricardo Cabral, this document represents a further contribution to the oral health of the Azores, which together with other awareness-raising and information already held, has allowed the public awareness. The dentist assured that, although slow, the results of this study have emerged, pointing to the example of the decay rates of children in the Azores, which in 2000 were 4.5 percent and in 2005 moved to 2,1 per cent.
Citing the findings of the latest study of oral health carried out in the archipelago, Ricardo Cabral said that between 2000 and 2005, there was a "health gain" at the level of real rates of tooth decay of children of 2.4 percent. The percentage of children caries-free six years of age, the region has fallen from 30.8 percent in 2000 to 37.3 percent in 2005, and the World Health Organization recommends that, in 2020, to be achieved 80 percent, he said.
For the chairman of the Azorean the Dental Association, Artur Lima, the Bulletin Single Oral Health is an "important contribution" to the promotion of health are alert to difficulties in implementing the project on the island of Faial. Artur Lima said to the Lusa that, in Faial, no dentists in the public sector, and the distribution of newsletters has been done by teams of nursing. "The six dentists who work in Faial exercise all private practice, because the Government never opened positions to the public," said Artur Lima.
In the Azores carrying 74 dental professionals, covering all the islands of the archipelago. Contacted by Lusa, the regional director of Health, Teresa Brito, assured that the situation of Faial is to be resolved not by the unwillingness of guardianship, but due to legal issues. "The hiring of employees first requires the unfreezing of vacancies and the holding of a tender," said Teresa Brito, for whom "the solution to this gap is expected to reach the short term." He added that legal procedures are not consistent "with the urgency of the situation, but noted that the Azorean government has done" work out "for providing all health centers with new equipment and materials essential to the practice of dentistry.
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A direct question to the Minister of Health: For when the Bulletin Individual Health for all children and adolescents in Portugal?
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